There’s a particular kind of smugness that settles over you the first time you hang a Dutch oven from a tripod instead of wedging it into a pile of rocks and hoping for the best. A campfire tripod for cooking is, at its core, a simple three-legged stand with an adjustable chain that suspends pots, … Read more
A dutch oven for camping is basically a thick-walled, heavy-lidded pot built to sit directly in coals or on a grate and turn a campfire into something closer to a real kitchen. In practice, that means bread that actually rises, chili that doesn’t scorch on one side, and a cobbler that comes out with a … Read more
Nothing kills camp-cooking momentum faster than watching a cast iron skillet slide off two wobbly rocks and dump grilled asparagus straight into the coals. I’ve heard that exact story from two different friends on two different trips, and both times the fix was the same: an actual campfire cooking grate. So what is a campfire … Read more
